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Re: Windows XP Support
- From: Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:25:36 -0700
- Subject: Re: Windows XP Support
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- References: <56924AB1 dot 1070903 at gmx dot de> <20160111115221 dot GC32610 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
On Jan 11, 2016, at 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> Continuing support for XP and Server 2003 is really becoming a
> burden. It requires to code and maintain workarounds which are not
> required anymore in newer OSes, so I really would like to get rid of
> that stuff.
I seem to recall you saying that Vista added a fork-like facility to the kernel which might let Cygwin implement a copy-on-write fork(2). Would dropping XP support allow that?
If so, that would probably speed Cygwin up quite a bit in many common use cases: running autoconf configure scripts, Makefiles, etc.
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